Word: hurtful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dear Karcsi: The fact that my song Gloomy Sunday is being played all over the world bewildered me-I do not know whether I should be happy over it. I stand in the midst of this deathly success as an accused. Believe me, Karcsi, this "fatal fame" hurts me. It hurls that so many people chose this song as their death march, making it world-famous with their act. People who die with a song must have beautiful souls, but I do not compose them for that purpose. I write songs to have people sing them and enjoy themselves while...
Alice sat with her back propped against the cool trunk of the peach-tree. The strong April sun broke its way through the leaves and made spots on her shining white apron. It was very hot, and Alice's head began to hurt her the way it did when she stayed shut up too long at school. Lifting a small cloth-covered book from her lap, Alice turned over, and lay on her stomach, dangling her feet above...
...exhibition hall der Führer spoke soberly, tactfully. Once he blurted out: "I know I have hurt millions of persons, but I have had to do it in order to create national unity." This was expunged from most reports of his speech. He ended on a fine emotional note...
...passes through this period with little difficulty because of his father's frank advice. The puppy-love stage is treated with all the seriousness it deserves and when Andrew falls from grace at the rather tender age of 16 he is orientated by his father and helped rather than hurt. This close understanding of father and son is present throughout the volume in almost too perfect harmony, but Marks appears to be looking back and seeing how the situation should have been...
...religion" by Royalist youths, who thus brazenly described the outrageous beating they gave Socialist Blum when his appearance as a bystander at a Royalist funeral procession incensed them (TIME, Feb. 24). This attack-and enemies of Léon Blum charged he was not really hurt but is dramatically "exploiting a few scratches"- threatens to figure largely in the coming French Chamber and Senate elections for which Parliament will adjourn Friday, March...